The goal of the Pecinka lab is to understand molecular mechanisms shaping plant genomes. To this end we use the model plant ''Arabidopsis thaliana'' and several other ''Brassicaceae'' and analyze them by using forward and reverse genetics, molecular, biochemical, cytogenetic and bioinformatic methods.

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Pecinka lab is hosted by the [http://www.mpipz.mpg.de/10574/koornneef-dpt Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics] at the [http://www.mpipz.mpg.de/2169/en Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research] in Cologne, Germany.

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The Pecinka lab is hosted by the [http://www.mpipz.mpg.de/10574/koornneef-dpt Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics] at the [http://www.mpipz.mpg.de/2169/en Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research] in Cologne, Germany.

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Our wiki site was developed under [http://openwetware.org/wiki/Main_Page OpenWetWare], an open access effort to promote sharing of information among biologists.

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Our goal is to understand molecular and evolutionary mechanisms shaping plant genomes and epigenomes. We analyze how DNA sequence variation is generated by various mutagenic factors and how these forces are counteracted by the genome repair and maintenance mechanisms. To this end we use the model plant ''Arabidopsis thaliana'' and several other ''Brassicaceae'' and analyze them by forward and reverse genetics, molecular, biochemical, cytogenetic and bioinformatic methods.

*2012-11-27: [[media: Post-doc-Pecinka_lab.pdf| Post-doc position in the "Analysis of two Australian crucifers as models for comparative -omics" is available in the Pecinka lab.]]

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*2013-12-31: Happy New Year 2014!

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*2012-09-10: The mini-review on differential silencing of tranposable elements between ''A. thaliana'' and ''A.lyrata'' has been published in Mobile Genetic Elements [[media:deMeaux-MES-2012.pdf| PDF]]

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*2013-12-09: Xmas market get together

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*2012-03-28: The review on Stress-Induced Chromatin Changes was published in PCP [http://pcp.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/03/28/pcp.pcs044.abstract]

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*2013-10-01: Mariana Diaz starts her PhD

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*2013-09-30: Lab field trip to Altenahr [[Pecinka_lab:Labtrip|more]]

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*2013-09-24: Andreas successfully defended his PhD at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. Congratulations!

Research

Our goal is to understand molecular and evolutionary mechanisms shaping plant genomes and epigenomes. We analyze how DNA sequence variation is generated by various mutagenic factors and how these forces are counteracted by the genome repair and maintenance mechanisms. To this end we use the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and several other Brassicaceae and analyze them by forward and reverse genetics, molecular, biochemical, cytogenetic and bioinformatic methods.
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